Overview
- LDP policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi urged the government to consider a persona non grata designation if China fails to address the incident.
- Japan’s Foreign Ministry and its embassy in China lodged strong protests and demanded deletion of the posts, with some entries no longer accessible by the night of November 9.
- Chinese Consul-General Xue Jian’s November 8 posts on X included violent threats targeting Japan’s leadership after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Diet remark on a Taiwan contingency.
- Taiwan’s presidential office condemned the messages as threatening and clearly outside diplomatic decorum.
- The U.S. ambassador to Japan publicly criticized the consul’s conduct, saying he threatened the Japanese people and revealed his true nature.